5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT USLAW

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Homefield Advantage

The Homefield Advantage comes from knowing and understanding the venue in a way that allows a competitive advantage – a truism in both sports and business. Knowing the local rules, the judge, Plaintiff's counsel, and the “gossip” provides our firms’ clients this advantage.

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By the Numbers

More than a number. Our nearly 100 member firm network with 6,000+ attorneys delivers consistent, cohesive and cost-efficient legal services. Through friendship, networking and resource-sharing, USLAW attorneys develop the type of cooperation and client-focused service that corporations demand of their counsel.

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Client-Centric

Clients receive ongoing educational opportunities, online resources including webinars, jurisdictional updates and resource libraries. We also provide a semi-annual USLAW Magazine, compendiums of law and more.

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Connected

The more we connect...the more we succeed. Log on, log in or simply search the many USLAW communication channels and gain immediate access to the most comprehensive legal resources available anywhere.

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Industry leaders

USLAW NETWORK member firms are business and legal industry leaders in a broad range of topics from transportation, insurance, construction and cyber law to banking, contract law and employment and more. Check out their latest blog posts and engage in the dialogue.

YOUR HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE

USLAW NETWORK is a global network of nearly 100 independent, defense-based law firms with more 6,000 attorneys covering the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

We are organized around client expectations, which ensures we focus on our mission to continually serve members’ clients and others seeking legal expertise from highly rated and specialized law firms.

USLAW offers an expansive network of regionally based, independent firms that have the capability to offer cross-jurisdictional services, jurisdictional awareness and to respond quickly, efficiently and economically to client needs from coast to coast and around the world.

Our member firms are experienced in commercial and business law, employment and labor law, litigation and many other business-related areas of law and all firms have substantial trial experience. We provide trusted and experienced legal specialists quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. When a difficult legal matter emerges – whether it’s in a single jurisdiction, nationwide or internationally – USLAW is there. Success.

USLAW PERSPECTIVE

Neil Goldberg

Partner
Goldberg Segalla LLP • Buffalo, N.Y.

Goldberg Segalla attorneys handle all forms of dispute resolution and provide proactive counsel to help minimize and manage risk in a broad array of areas.

Following a four-week federal antitrust trial, the largest hospital system in Idaho was ordered to unwind a transaction in which it had acquired the largest independent physician practice group in Idaho.

Traub Lieberman’s motion for Summary Judgment was granted on behalf of its client Carp Construction Corp. (“Carp”) in a decision issued by New York State Supreme Court on a construction site accident case.

In an unusual turn of events, a major motor carrier was recently awarded a sizable judgment by a Tennessee jury. Lee Piovarcy and Lew Wardlaw of the Martin Tate firm in Memphis tried the case to verdict.

The joint efforts of the Transactional and Litigation practice groups from Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP achieved significant results for firm client First Merchants Corporation (“FMC”). This is a great example of synergy to achieve client results.

Jennifer D. Tricker, a partner at Baird Holm LLP in Omaha, Neb., obtained a defense verdict for her client, Landstar Ranger, Inc. ("Landstar"), in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, in a case alleging violation of the Carmack Amendment (49 U.S.C. §14706).

Randall Sickler and Nicholas Grant of Ebeltoft . Sickler . Lawyer . PLLC were recently successful in obtaining summary judgment in North Dakota state court on behalf of their client on claims arising from an explosion and fire at a commercial building.

Goldberg Segalla helped a Fortune 100 company recover a significant sum in a case involving the misappropriation and fraudulent conveyance of funds by a contractor over the course of a several-year business relationship.

After six days of trial, Sweeney & Sheehan partner and USLAW Board member Michael Kunsch obtained a defense verdict in favor of Louisville Ladder and W.W. Grainger in a product liability case in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Circuit Court of Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee, rendered a defense verdict (take nothing judgment) in favor of a national bus company. Lee Piovarcy and Lew Wardlaw of the Martin Tate Firm in Memphis tried the case to verdict.

The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed in full the Orange County Superior Court's granting of Essentia Insurance Company's Motion for Summary Judgment. Carolyn A. Mathews handled the Motion for Summary Judgment and the opposition to the appeal, and Maria A. Starn handled the oral argument.

Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry’s (TLS&S) motion for summary judgment was granted on behalf of its client Transitional Services for New York (TSNY) in a decision issued by New York State Supreme Court Judge Augustus Agate.

Goldberg Segalla’s Environmental Practice Group successfully defended the corporate owner of the premises and its principal, avoiding in their entirety civil penalties against the corporation and the criminal prosecution of the principal for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.

A landmark ruling upholding the rights of minority shareholders in a case involving one of Virginia’s most prosperous and longstanding mining and landholding enterprises has set a strong precedent and reversed the family’s fortune.

In Cahn v. Ward Trucking, Inc., Ahmuty, Demers & McManus scored a unique victory in the Appellate Division First Department when the court granted its motion to reargue and issued a new decision which granted summary judgment to its client for the claims asserted by the plaintiff.

A Bakersfield jury returned a defense verdict in a premises liability case handled by Joseph Kang of Murchison & Cumming for defendant Tehachapi Towne Center, LLC. In Betty Ramirez v. Tehachapi Towne Center, LLC, the plaintiff alleged personal injury, general negligence and premises liability after tripping and falling on the flared side of the handicap ramp near the entrance of a store located in the shopping center.

On October 25, 2012, Keely E. Duke and Richard E. Hall of Duke Scanlan & Hall, PLLC, secured a final decision from the Ninth Circuit affirming a jury verdict in favor of their defendant physician in a highly publicized case involving emergency room care provided to an infant in the face of parental refusal of such care.